April 2012
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“And anyway, reading for enjoyment is what we should all be doing. I don’t mean...”
– Nick Hornby, Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (pg. 17)
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“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your...”
– Rachel Kadish,Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story (via seabois)
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“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been...”
– Michael Ondaatje (via flentes)
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on...”
– Terry Pratchett, Diggers. (via ruineshumaines)
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“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watt (via unusednotebooks)
“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I...”
– ― Henry David Thoreau (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see...”
– Mitch Albom, Five People You Meet in Heaven (via bookmania)
“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and...”
– Unknown (via not-hip)
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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love...”
– Maya Angelou (via myquotelibrary)
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want...”
– Albert Einstein (via booksandnerds)
“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see...”
– Muriel Barberry (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
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“A short story must have single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via amandaonwriting)
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“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves...”
– Don DeLillo (via creatingaquietmind)
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“You can tell a lot about someone from their bookmarks. For the reader, they...”
– The Secret Lives of Bookmarks (via bookriot)
“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape (via libraryland)
“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via writingadvice)
“They’ve promised us that dreams come true - but forgot that nightmares are...”
– Oscar Wilde (via moving-words)
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Write World: Word of the Day: Sylph →
writeworld:
sylph \silf, noun:
1. A slender, graceful woman or girl. 2. (In folklore) one of a race of supernatural beings supposed to inhabit the air.
The sylph had been as slender as a willow, with long silver hair and eyes like the dark between the stars. — Jenna Reynolds,Kiss of Honor
Ben was…
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have...”
– Thomas Carlyle (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of...”
– Eugene Field (The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac)
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“Practicing authenticity can feel like a daunting choice—there’s risk involved in...”
– -Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection (via creatingaquietmind)
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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I...”
– Joss Whedon (via amandaonwriting)
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch (via myquotelibrary)
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“I’m always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always...”
– John Waters, Role Models (via tissah)
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via lostsplendor)
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“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don’t slip from...”
– Pablo Neruda (via libraryland)
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“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems,...”
– E. James Rohn (via myquotelibrary)
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“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may...”
– May Sarton (via myquotelibrary)
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“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty...”
– Albert Einstein (via myquotelibrary)
“However you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent...”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(via heartmindspirit)
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“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via artisticfreefall) 